REFERENDUM (ELECTORAL REDISTRIBUTION) BILL

Introduction and First Reading

The Hon. R.B. SUCH (Fisher) (10:35): Obtained leave and introduced a bill for an act to provide for the submission of the Constitution (Electoral Redistribution) Amendment Bill 2008 to a referendum. Read a first time.

Second Reading

The Hon. R.B. SUCH (Fisher) (10:35): I move:

That this bill be now read a second time.

This is a companion bill that provides the technical mechanism to give effect to the earlier bill—that is, that it requires a referendum of the people of South Australia. I do not need to make an extensive speech in relation to that; it is consequential on the earlier bill. If that is adopted, then the matter has to go to the people. That is the way it is and the way it should be. I commend the bill to the house.

Debate adjourned on motion of Mrs Geraghty.